Buck Owens
Subtitle: the Biography
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781569767436
Subjects: Fine Arts
Description: Retracing the life of Buck Owens - from his poverty-stricken youth as the son of a sharecropper to one of the nation's best-loved and wealthiest entertainers - this biography pays tribute to the man and his music by revealing his genius, his warmth, his humour, his vulnerabilities, and his flaws.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Son of a Tenant Farmer; 2. The Exodus; 3. Bonnie; 4. The Promised Land; 5. Capitol; 6. Washington; 7. Dangerous Don; 8. Bakersfield Redux; 9. General Jack; 10. Uncle Dorothy; 11. "Act Naturally"; 12. Merle and the Moose Medicine; 13. Dashing Doyle; 14. Timid Tom; 15. The Peacemakers; 16. Dennis Payne; 17. The Firing of Mel King; 18. Willing Willie; 19. Road Stories; 20. Buck's Pledge; 21. The Baron of Buckersfield; 22. Phyllis; 23. Professional Jealousy; 24. The Flex Bus; 25. The Girl Singer; 26. Buck Owens Ranch.; title: 27. Carnegie Hall28. Running with the Dogs; 29. James, Charley, and Ray; 30. If the Suit Fits; 31. The Studio and the Snake; 32. Jennifer; 33. Forbidden Fruit; 34. Friends in High Places; 35. Jumpin' Jerry Wiggins; 36. Stolen Glory; 37. Kris Black; 38. A Run-In with Rolene; 39. Flying High; 40. Bucking Tradition; 41. The Show Must Go On; 42. Jay Dee; 43. Hee Haw; 44. Drugs of Choice; 45. Jo McFadden; 46. Buck Changes His Tunes; 47. Ruby and the Master of S.